I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of CSE at The Pennsylvania State University and a research assistant in the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory, advised by Prof. Patrick McDaniel. My research interests are in network and systems security. In current work, I am exploring how software-defined networks are vulnerable to novel classes of attacks and how new trusted computing primitives can be leveraged to prevent them and build more secure systems.

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Publications

• Quinn Burke, Fidan Mehmeti, Rahul George, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta, and Patrick McDaniel. "Enforcing Multilevel Security Policies in Unstable Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, June 2022. [DOI] [arXiv] [PDF]
• Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Patrick McDaniel. "Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System," in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), July 2022. [DOI] [arXiv] [PDF]
• Tian Xie, Sanchal Thakkar, Ting He, Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, and Quinn Burke. "Joint Caching and Routing in Cache Networks with Arbitrary Topology," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 2022. [DOI] [PDF]
• Eric Pauley, Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, Quinn Burke, Yohan Beugin, and Patrick McDaniel. "Measuring and Mitigating the Risk of IP Reuse on Public Clouds," in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), IEEE, May 2022. [DOI] [arXiv] [PDF] [FAQ]
• Kyle Domico, Ryan Sheatsley, Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, and Patrick McDaniel. "A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Approach to Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting," in Machine Learning in Heliophysics (ML-Helio), AGU, Mar. 2022. [DOI] [arXiv] [PDF]
• Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta, Mingli Yu, and Ting He. "Misreporting Attacks Against Load Balancers in Software-Defined Networking," in Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, Dec. 2021. [DOI] [PDF]
• Mingli Yu, Tian Xie, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel, and Quinn Burke. "Flow Table Security in SDN: Adversarial Reconnaissance and Intelligent Attacks," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Aug. 2021. [DOI] [PDF]
• Stefan Achleitner, Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Trent Jaeger, Thomas La Porta and Srikanth Krishnamurthy. "MLSNet: A Policy Complying Multilevel Security Framework for Software Defined Networking," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Mar. 2021, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 729-744. [DOI] [arXiv] [PDF]
• Quinn Burke, Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta, Mingli Yu, and Ting He. "Misreporting Attacks in Software-Defined Networking," in International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2020), Cham, Oct. 2020, pp. 276–296. [DOI] [PDF]
• Mingli Yu, Ting He, Patrick McDaniel and Quinn Burke. "Flow Table Security in SDN: Adversarial Reconnaissance and Intelligent Attacks," in IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, July 2020, pp. 1519-1528. [DOI] [PDF]

Works in Progress & In Submission

• Quinn Burke, Eric Pauley, Yohan Beugin, Ryan Sheatsley, Blaine Hoak, and Patrick McDaniel. "Building a Trusted Distributed File System on Untrusted Hardware". 2022.
• Mingli Yu, Quinn Burke, Thomas La Porta, and Patrick McDaniel. "Network Flow Reconnaissance in the Software-Defined Networking Data Plane". 2022.